From Dublin to Nairobi: A Lecture by Sahara Abdi

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Sunday, 14 June 2026

Event times:

15:00 - 16:00

Event location:

James Joyce Centre

Event price:

€10.00

About this event

Join us at The James Joyce Centre for a special Bloomsday Festival lecture by Kenyan writer Sahara Abdi on Sunday, 14 June at 3pm.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, one of Kenya’s most important writers offers a lens for reading these resonances. His central argument in Decolonising the Mind is that colonial language is a tool of domination.

Separated by time, both Joyce and Ngugi are reconstructing cultural memory under colonial pressure and they represent two colonial experiences responding differently to same imperial language.

This lecture juxtaposes Joyce and Ngugi to explore how both writers represent colonial subjectivity, the politics of language, and the dignity of ordinary life, despite their different historical and geographical contexts.

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